Manager, DevOps

Sphera

. Lead and grow a team of DevOps engineers and leads, including partner-vendor staff .

Posted 11/9/2026full-timeRemote • PolandSeniorLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading DevOps teams, managing cloud infrastructure, and implementing automation practices. Proficient in Microsoft Azure services, Azure DevOps, and infrastructure as code methodologies.

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Microsoft Azure ExpertiseDevOps Team LeadershipInfrastructure As CodeCI/CD ImplementationChange Management

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Hard Skills

DevOpsSRECloud InfrastructurePlatform EngineeringAzure DevOps BoardsCI/CD for .NETTerraformPowerShellBashPython

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationTeam ManagementCoaching

Tools & Technologies

Azure DevOpsAzure Service BusKey VaultApplication GatewayEntra ID

Certifications & Qualifications

AZ-104AZ-305AZ-400

Industry Keywords

ISO 27001SOC 2FinOpsMulti-Tenant SaaSIncident Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudPythonSQLTerraformVault.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow a team of DevOps engineers and leads, including partner-vendor staff
Set expectations, hold regular 1:1s and provide actionable feedback
Balance workloads across product-line support, projects and tickets
Own hiring, interviewing and onboarding
Coach engineers toward lead roles and leads toward management
Own the team backlog in Azure DevOps, creating well-scoped epics, features and backlog items
Drive DevOps projects through milestones, schedules and SLAs; report status
Review and approve customer environment and integration setups
Ensure production changes follow change management, approvals, testing and rollback plans
Own operational readiness including monitoring, alerting, backups, DR validation and support handover
Lead incident response and follow-up, converting significant incidents into lasting fixes
Apply information-security controls including least-privilege access, secret management and audit evidence
Establish shared standards with fellow DevOps Managers for planning, estimation, reviews, on-call and reporting
Coordinate team coverage and resource movement during absences and changing priorities
Provide the Director with a joint view of capacity, risks and priorities
Promote automation, infrastructure as code and standard patterns
Partner with FinOps on cloud-cost management
Maintain runbooks, handbook articles and wiki documentation
Partner with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Care and InfoSec on roadmaps and dependencies

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering
2+ years leading engineers as a people manager or team lead
Deep, practical experience with Microsoft Azure: virtual machines and App Service; virtual networks, NSGs, private endpoints and Application Gateway; Entra ID, managed identities and RBAC; Key Vault; and Azure Service Bus
Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps Boards and Pipelines
Experience with CI/CD for .NET and SQL Server applications
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or Bicep)
Scripting experience with PowerShell, plus Bash or Python
Track record of running production systems under change control, including CAB processes, incident management, DR and audit evidence
Comfort managing a distributed team across time zones, including contractors and vendor partners
Clear written and spoken communication
Experience with a multi-tenant SaaS platform alongside single-tenant customer deployments (nice to have)
SSO and identity federation (Azure AD B2C, SAML, OIDC) (nice to have)
Experience in ISO 27001 or SOC 2 environments (nice to have)
FinOps practice or tooling (nice to have)
Azure certifications AZ-104, AZ-305 or AZ-400 (nice to have)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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